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It has taken years, and a wholesale re-do from the city, but the Official Community Plan for East Vancouver’s Grandview Woodlands neighbourhood is now ready for public input.

The plan is ambitious, creating more than 7,000 new housing units over 30 years.

The biggest changes came in terms of the height of some proposed buildings.

There will still be high rises built, but fewer and only in certain areas. The area around the Commercial Drive SkyTrain station will see a 24-storey tower and another that stretches to 12 storeys.

According to assistant director of planning Kent Munro, the city was keen to protect the vibe of the neighbourhood.

“It was important to protect rental stock and affordability,” he said. “This plan protects that.”

Even though the plan was designed after considerable public input in the form of a citizen’s assembly, selling it to the community at large over the next month could prove to be a challenge.

Grandview Woodland Advisory Council director Dorothy Barkley believes what the city has come back with is reasonable, but it won’t allay everyone’s concerns.

“There are a group of residents along Broadway near Commercial Drive that are going to have issues with this,” she said.

The plan covers a much wider area than just Commercial Drive. Grandview Woodlands stretches from Clark Drive to Nanaimo Street and from 12th Avenue to Burrard Inlet. While the residential towers will take much of the criticism, the majority of the planning calls for low- to mid-rise buildings scaled for walkable neighbourhoods.

Community meetings are scheduled starting Wednesday and city council is expected to vote on the issue in late July.

The Halifax municipal government released new details about its Centre Plan during an open house on Monday night.

The open house, which attracted more than 100 people, was held at Citadel High School.

The recommended options include building tall buildings (seven or more storeys), moderate-height buildings (four to six storeys), low-rise buildings (three storeys or fewer), and infill homes (semi-detached, townhouses, etc.).

[email protected] is hosting a #CentrePlan open house at @CitadelHS until 9 p.m. @jacobisonit addresses the crowd. #hfxpoli pic.twitter长沙桑拿/BLDzLD6YPO

— Steve Silva (@SteveCSilva) June 27, 2016

The regional centre is expected to grow from 97,000 to 130,000 people by 2031, according to the plan. The growth can be accommodated through five areas: established residential areas (16 per cent), primary growth areas (28 per cent), downtowns (14 per cent), future growth areas (21 per cent), and secondary corridors (21 per cent).

The growth potential of those areas were determined on seven factors: level of transit service, access to open space, land availability, development interest, proximity to key employment areas, community assets, and servicing constraints.

Depending on the proposed scenarios for growth, the Wyse area, for example, could see the development of four 10-storey buildings and 23 five-storey buildings, or 10 10-storey buildings and nine five-storey buildings.

READ MORE: Housing a concern for many at Halifax Centre Plan workshop

The details of the plan will be posted on the project’s website on Tuesday.

More meetings will be held throughout the summer. Before going to the Halifax Regional Council, a final draft is set to go to the Community Design Advisory Committee in December.

WATCH ABOVE: Jacob Ritchie, urban design program manager for the municipal government, talks about Halifax’s Centre Plan in an interview.

Ikea has announced it has stopped selling the Malm dresser, one of its most-popular, and is recalling millions the items in North America after the deaths of six children in the United States.

“IKEA Canada takes its role as a responsible retailer very seriously and we want to raise the awareness of the hazard of furniture tip-over in Canadians’ homes,” IKEA Canada President Stefan Sjöstrand said in a statement Tuesday.

Ikea warned customers in a July 2015 statement that the dressers could tip-over and advised consumers not to use the dressers unless they were secured to the wall with anchors provided in the packaging.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) six children in the U.S. have died since 1989, and more than 40 injuries have been reported.

The CPSC said in a statement the most recent death occurred in Minnesota after a boy died in February 2016, after a Malm dresser tipped onto him.

The furniture retailer said there had been no tip-over incidents or injuries in Canada.

WATCH: IKEA customer says he was misled by Swedish furniture maker

In total, eight million Malm-style chest of drawers and 21 million additional children’s and adult chests and dressers are being recalled the U.S. Approximately six million Malm units were sold in Canada.

Chests and dressers manufactured between January 2002 and June 2016 are qualified for a full refund. Furniture made before 2002 may be eligible for a partial store credit. The company says that all chests and dressers should be attached to a wall to prevent them from toppling over.

“Ikea US and Ikea Canada will launch a local recall of chests of drawers in North America only,” the company said in a statement.

“Ikea chests of drawers are safe when anchored to the wall per the assembly instruction, using the tip over restraint provided with the product.”

IKEA Canada said the recall affects chests of drawers that are above 60cm for children’s chests of drawers and above 75cm for adult chests of drawers.

The 29 million units of recalled chests and dressers include: MALM 3-drawer, 4-drawer, 5-drawer and three 6-drawer models and other children’s and adult chests and dressers.

Here’s the full list of the 19 different chests of drawers being recalled in Canada.

A Lethbridge woman was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for the death of 43-year-old Katheline Buck of Coaldale.

Originally the Crown had charged the 22-year-old with second-degree murder, but instead accepted a guilty plea to manslaughter.

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In the agreed statement of facts submitted by defence council and the Crown prosecutor, it was stated that in the early morning hours of Feb. 23 2015, Julie-Ann Nicky Agerskov and a man arrived at friend’s home along 19 Street North.

Court heard they were doing drugs and called a dealer for more.

Katheline Buck showed up at the home. Agerskov thought the woman had stolen from her a few weeks earlier.

When Buck went to leave the house, Agerskov tried to rob her and steal crack cocaine she believed Buck was hiding in her clothes.

Buck swung a chair at Agerskov and Agerskov pulled out a knife.

The man with Agerskov tried to intervene and was unintentionally stabbed.

Buck was stabbed 13 times.

READ MORE: Lethbridge police investigating suspicious death

The agreed statement of facts detailed that Agerskov and the man left the home, while Buck was left in a pool of blood screaming for help.

The person who lived at the house woke up and called 911, but it was too late.

Agerskov was arrested a short time later and made a full confession to police.

During sentencing, her lawyer said she takes responsibility for her actions and has deep remorse and regret, adding that while in prison, she wrote an apology letter to Buck’s family.

“I’m truly sorry about what I’ve done and I hope to be better in the future,” Agerskov told the judge.

The 22-year-old was sentenced to 10 years in jail, with credit given for time served. She will have eight years left to serve for the manslaughter charge.

She also pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault for stabbing a man during the same incident, and received one more additional year in jail.

Fraser said the decision not to run in the upcoming election wasn’t taken lightly. He made the choice after a lengthy discussion with his family and friends.

“Ultimately it’s a job where you get to help people.”

The one-term councillor and his wife recently had a baby girl last month. He said he wants to focus more on his growing family and his full-time job at the YMCA.

“I think whenever, wherever you get to work with people and help people, there’s no better job than that,” Fraser said.

Fraser also said he’s not endorsing any candidates for Ward 3, which encompasses the Cathedral neighbourhood, anytime soon, but will keep his eyes open.

“I’m under no illusion that I’m the only person that could do a good job of representing Ward 3,” Fraser said.

“Ward 3 will be well represented, just by someone else.”

READ MORE: City Council pushes back discussion on Regina being a ‘living wage employer’

He said he’ll be asking candidates what their stance is on some of the issues he’s raised during council, like discussions around a city living wage or the motion of the Blue Dot movement.

The motion included a non-binding commitment to include environmental concerns in decisions and a a commitment to call on the provincial and federal governments to include an amendment to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms outlining the right to a healthy environment.

READ MORE: Regina city council supports idea behind Blue Dot Movement, but has some concerns

Fraser said there’s still issues in Regina that need to be worked on, but things have improved.

“My focus when I ran for this job was to talk about housing here in the city. We haven’t solved all the problems but the situation around rental housing has gotten a lot better,” he said.

Ontario Provincial Police say an inattentive truck driver may be responsible for a fiery multi-vehicle collision on Highway 400 that killed a five-year-old girl and three others in Toronto Friday night.

OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the child was one of three occupants traveling inside a vehicle involved in the crash that occurred around 9:45 p.m. on the southbound lanes of Highway 400 just south of Finch Avenue.

“I don’t think that I’ve been to a collision scene that was this devastating —; the vehicles were crumpled up, were smashed beyond recognition, the fire consumed them as well,” Schmidt said.

“Four people lost their lives. I’ve been to many collisions involving fatalities, involving transport trucks and multiple vehicles, but this collision was particularly hard to deal with.”

Police said the two other occupants of the vehicle in which the child died were all female family members.

A fourth person in a separate vehicle also died in the crash. Their gender and identity have not been released.

Schmidt said police have spoken to family members of the deceased and autopsies are being conducted Monday by the Chief Coroner for Ontario.

Of the four victims that died on Hwy400 SB south of Finch on Friday night one of them is believed to be a 4 year old girl

— Sgt Kerry Schmidt (@OPP_HSD) June 27, 2016

Police said they are concentrating their investigation on a transport truck that may have caused the collision involving a total of 11 vehicles.

Schmidt said that while traffic was slowing down in one of the lanes, the truck did not adjust its speed and set off the chain of events that led to the “horrible tragedy.”

WATCH: 4 dead in Highway 400 crash

“Completely preventable as far as I’m concerned and really we just want to get that message out to truck drivers and all drivers that you have to focus on the road, you’ve got to look what’s coming up down the road,” he said.

“The lanes on the left and right, they may be moving at full speed, but if there’s one lane that’s slowing down and that’s the one you’re in —; you have to address your driving and we’re really just calling on truck drivers as well, if you’re involved in a collision like this it’s something that you’re going to be held accountable for.”

“It only takes a moment for something to happen and some of the attention to be diverted away from their task of looking forward and seeing how traffic is changing and that’s when things like this happen.”

The crash stopped traffic for several hours in both directions Friday evening and investigators were on scene for 14 hours. Many of the vehicles had to be turned around and rerouted in the area.

“The importance of paying attention to what we’re doing at all times is unbelievable. We’re pulling 80,000 pounds down the road —; the minute we take our eyes off the road, we’re off what we’re doing or for whatever reason we fall asleep while we’re behind the wheel —; disastrous things happen,” said Rob Jackson, a senior driver trainer at Humber College.

“The truck driver has a responsibility to drive the truck at the proper following distance knowing he takes a lot longer to stop than any other vehicle on our roads.”

Nearly a year after it was destroyed in a fire, officials at Red Crow Community College announced they will be rebuilding the institution. When flames tore through the former residential school in August, it was met with mixed emotions.

“For a lot of our parents and grandparents, they suffered a lot of traumas in there,” Red Crow Community College Board Chair Lionel Weasel Head said.

But now, the college is starting over. Crews will be rebuilding across the highway from the old site.

“I really think this will be a new start for the college and for the community,” Weasel Head said.

All that’s left of where the college burnt down is an empty field. The school could rebuild in exactly the same spot, but is choosing not to because of its cultural beliefs.

“We’ve been here for thousands of years and we have our own cultural ways and norms,” Blood Tribe Councillor Billy Wadsworth. “Part of those ways is the teaching that we don’t ever build on sites where there’s fires.”

College officials peg the financial loss of the fire at over $10 million. A lot of the re-building cost will be covered through insurance, but not all losses can be regained.

“One of the hardest things is some of those priceless items,” Weasel Head said. “Those elders’ interviews, even artefacts, those kind of things are going to be hard to get back.”

Last September, fire officials determined arson was the cause, but Blood Tribe officials have yet to see a report and no charges have been laid.

As for the re-building process, that can’t begin until the insurance money comes in.

“Frustration for me personally speaking is the insurance process being so slow,” Wadsworth said. “Being in leadership we have to answer to our community. There’s been a lot of public inquiry and students (asking about the rebuilding) and it’s been difficult to accept the fact that insurance processes are so long.”

There’s no firm timeline on when construction will start, but officials hope it will be within the year.

The Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC) met with Council Monday to respond to the request to consider an alternate site for the proposed megasports complex.

In a 12-3 vote, council agreed to have the CSEC, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation and other stakeholders meet over the next few months in order to consider all options.

The CSEC has asked to build a facility in the West Village that could house all of Calgary’s professional sports teams owned by the Calgary Sports and Entertainment group.

In April, council suggested that the group behind the project was underestimating the cost of building the complex at the west end of downtown, and suggested the group look at building on the Stampede Grounds instead.

READ MORE: Flames ownership examining ‘Plan B’ for CalgaryNEXT

The CSEC West Village location sits on contaminated land.

A wood treatment facility owned by Canada Creosote Company used to be on the proposed site and was in operation from 1924 to 1963. The chemicals that were used in that treatment process over the 39 years leaked into the ground and contaminated the land. An extensive remuneration of the area will need to be completed before any development can occur. One of the challenges is that Canada Creosote Co. no longer exists, so it cannot help with the clean-up costs.

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One of the points of contention is who should pay to remediate the land. The CSEC said in a report Monday that clean-up costs do not typically fall on the shoulders of new developers, and it also disputes the cost of remuneration.

In a document released Monday, CSEC disputed the price tag council has offered for the site cleanup.

The city has suggested it will cost between $85 and $140 million to rehabilitate the area. The CSEC believes the cost will be closer to $50 million.

Other areas of dispute included transportation and space, with the city suggesting there would not be enough public access and that the land could not possibly house a facility large enough for the complex.

A report on the CalgaryNEXT complex, as well as the alternate Plan B, must be completed by October.